Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in music for his album DAMN., making him the first non-jazz or classical artist to win the prize.
The awards were announced on Monday, with the Pulitzer Prize board calling the album “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.”
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- The Pulitzer Prizes April 16, 2018
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NEW YORK - Kendrick Lamar has won the Pulitzer Prize for music, making history as the first non-classical or jazz artist to win the prestigious prize.
The revered rapper is also the most commercially successful musician to receive the award, usually reserved for critically acclaimed classical acts who don't live on the pop charts.
The 30-year-old won the prize for “DAMN.,” his raw and powerful Grammy-winning album. The Pulitzer board said Monday the album is a “virtuosic song collection” and said it captures “the modern African American life.” He will win $15,000.
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Kendrick Lamar has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 2017 album DAMN. , the organization announced Monday.
It is the first time in the roughly 40-year history of hip-hop that the Pulitzer committee has recognized anyone from that essentially African-American cultural contribution, which has long since conquered the world far beyond the city that birthed it but still provokes spastic, ignorant fright-twitches from much of the white power structure of its home country. But by its nature, DAMN .'s recognition serves also to partially canonize a long list of other black men and...Read more ...

Get ready for Kendrick Lamar's next brag track, because the rapper just won the Pulitzer Prize for Music with his album Damn. Honorees were announced Monday at the Columbia School of Journalism, as the Prizes also live-streamed and tweeted the results. This Pulitzer has historically gone to classical or jazz music, so it's a pleasant surprise to see it awarded to Lamar, who also won Best Rap Album at the Grammys for Damn.Read more ...